University of California Workers Strike Against Harassment

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http://labornotes.org/2013/11/university-california-workers-strike-against-harassment

November 20, 2013 / Samantha Winslow

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Campus workers picket at UC Berkeley entrance during statewide strike. Photo: Claudette Begin, CUE Teamsters Local 2010 - See more at: http://labornotes.org/2013/11/university-california-workers-strike-against-harassment#sthash.KDtpWtHS.dpuf


More than 22,000 University of California campus workers and service and technical workers in the system’s medical centers are striking today, claiming harassment and intimidation by management. They are joined by 13,000 sympathy-striking graduate students in a one-day strike.

UC tried a last-minute legal maneuver to stop the strike—claiming it would put patients at risk—but a Sacramento Superior Court judge upheld the right to strike. The union’s 50-worker task force will be on call to fill in during the strike in case of medical emergencies.

The medical center workers—including X-ray, laboratory, and surgical technicians, patient care assistants, housekeepers, and cafeteria workers, among others—previously struck for two days in May. This time, they joined forces with university campus workers such as custodians and groundskeepers, who are in the same union but have a separate contract.

Both groups have been in negotiations for almost a year. The union, AFSCME 3299, says it is the only side showing movement at either table.
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